Canadian Army Newsreel No. 44

44.1 Canada Welcomes U.N.R.R.A.
The delegates to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration gather in Montreal in September 1944; Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King opens the meeting (actuality sound); the Honourable Herbert Lehman, the director general of U.N.R.R.A. pays tribute to Canada (actuality).

44.2 Rimini Housecleaning
Soldiers are moved to Rimini by transport; bulldozers push the ruins from the streets; a Greek infantry brigade; Italian women with soldiers.

44.3 Embarking Troops Invest in Victory
Men of a United Kingdom reinforcement unit buy Victory bonds before they march off.

44.4 Please Deliver One Airfield
The Royal Canadian Engineers survey land in France to begin the construction of a new airfield; German mines are removed; trees are knocked down; graders level the land; drainage tunnels are dug; drainage pipe is laid; a building is demolished; stone from the ruins is used to cover the runway; a prefabricated runway surface is unrolled on top of the stones; an aerial view of the runway; a plane lands.

44.5 Calais Cleared
French civilians are evacuated from Calais in a temporary truce; the French file out on foot and in trucks; the 1st Canadian Army attack the fort at Cap Gris Nez in September 1944; planes drop bombs on Calais; the wreckage in the streets; fire engines; flooded land; Cap Gris Nez Garrison; cross-channel guns are disabled.

44.6 The Road to the Reich
Transport vehicles move over muddy roads on their way to Antwerp; artillery attacks a water tower; flamethrowers shoot across the Leopold Canal near Eeklo; a gun with a camera on its barrel shoots; views of Antwerp.